Meter ticket



M y 1, 1962 J. ZALKIND 3,032,355

METER TICKET Filed Jan. 31, 1958 FIG.

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United States PatentG 3,032,355 METER TICKET Joseph Zalkind, 22 W. 22nd St., New York, NY. Filed Jan. 31, 1958, Ser. No. 712,508 5 Claims. (Cl. 282-22) This invention relates generally to business forms, slips or sheets of the multiple or manifold type, as used for record purposes, and has particular reference to recording means and methods.

One of the objects of the invention is the provision of an organization or device having compound sheets or members in which the constituent elements are so arranged structurally and functionally as to assure improved results with elements which are reduced in number, as compared with grouped sheets of this kind heretofore used, and which elements are also inexpensive and easy to manufacture and finally set up into the completed article, pad or group.

Business organizations, such as fuel companies or corporations, or oil or refinery firms, use manifold sets on which to enter or impress sales and other records, there being one or more substantially like sheets for different purposes, often one sheet for the purchaser, with other sheets for branches or units of the company or for other uses, and these record sheets are, as in one use thereof, passed into a meter or recording machine, to have required entries made or stamped thereon, the machines in these cases being of the ribbonless nature, so that on the top sheet of the set an ordinarily legible imprint may not be found, although such entry may appear on all of the other sheets of the pad. The recording machine, well known in trade, is often used by the delivery man on the vehicle, or fixed. at depots, and the impact of the individual type members, directly against the compound pad is considerable, in order that the imprint on all under sheets may be legible. 1 Sometimes, however, or on some places of the first or top sheet, it may be necessary to make a written entry, and it has heretofore been the practice to use a partial carbon sheet or slip, the latter being held in the pad binding, with the other sheets, and extending part of the way along the top sheet.

This partial sheet of carbon has been necessarily used, moreover, for keeping the top recordsheet reasonably free from soiling, since the salesman or operator of the delivery vehicle of truck, on which is the recording machine, may have his hands in an oily condition or in such state as not to be properly suitable for handling record sheets.

Another method heretofore used, more common than the partial carbon, is the provision of a top sheet of thin paper of a semi-transparent or translucent nature in conjunction with a double faced carbon paper insert therebelow. Thus, writing on the top sheet would be transferred to a duplicate sheet below and also appear on the reverse side of the top sheet being readable therethrough by virtue of the translucency of the top sheet. However, such thin top sheet was necessarily prone to be torn by rough handling or undue writing pressure.

It is another and important object of this inventoin to remedy such conditions as those stated immediately above. According to this invention, and pursuant to such object, a feature of the invention is at least one new or improved record sheet in the pile or group of padmembers, and this sheet is herein disclosed as the top member.

In the present invention the partial carbon sheet is eliminated, as is the thin top sheet and the double-faced carbon. Briefly, my invention utilizes a top sheet of strong paper having a coating fracturable to a visible extent, by ribbonless type. The coating is applied in a pre- 3,032,355 Patented May 1, 1962 ice determined area so that the sheet may be inserted in a recording meter having ribbonless type which registers with the strip and strikes a blow that fractures the coat ing, without tearing the sheet, the fracture being formed as numerals or other data in accordance with the type wheel settings of the meter, e.g., to record the number of gallons of oil delivered, etc.

With incorporation of a fracturable coating as part of the top sheet of the recording pad, the reading thereof is facilitated, since the impressions made therein are of a pronounced character, although not of such nature as to pierce or cut the sheet. The latter has, however, plain or smooth surfaces, and as a result of the type impact, these surfaces, on the character parts, become apparently mutilated, to such extent as to render the figures or characters easily legible.

The fracturable coating on the top sheet may be incorporated in different ways and may be either transparent, semi-transparent, or differing in the stated way and for the named purpose, from the other surface parts of the sheet members. Materials for such coatings are known. For example, I have found that a wax coating either partial or fully permeating the sheet is suitable as are various coatings used to effect the transparency of Window envelopes.

The present treated or transparent portion may also be incorporated in a sheet in different shapes or forms, one form being in the nature of a strip, which may extend completely across the sheet, although such strip or portion may extend only part of the way across the sheet, for example. v

Further, the reverse side of the coating strip may have a printed bar of ink in the area where the type strikes, so as to effect a strong contrast with the fracture markings.

With the above indicated objects and advantages in view, as well as others which will hereinafter appear, the invention resides in a certain novel construction and ar rangement of parts, with the method of performing the invention, the essential features of which are herein clearly described, and illustrated on the accompanying drawing, in which:

FIG. 1 is a view in perspective of a pad embodying the present improvements;

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a top sheet thereof; and

FIG. 3 is a vertical enlarged section on the line 3-3 of FIG. 2.

According to one way of forming the instant transparent or partly transparent portion or section in the relatively opaque sheet, such portion may be formed in the stock, with less thickness or density than the other or body portion of the stock.

With the body of the sheet of opaque nature, as herein illustrated, the portion which is rendered transparent, or substantially so, is treated with a fluid wax or the like, different varieties of which, such as an oil, grease, petroleum jelly, waterproofing material, or wax, give the required result of forming a fracturable coating.

In said drawing a top recording sheet 10 has printed or otherwise placed thereon the required data or usual headings, certain of which are conventionally shown, as parts of a general type, and on one portion of the sheet 10 is an integral transparent section 11, formed by application thereto of an above-named fracturable coating substance whence that section is partially or fully (as shown) permeated, e.g., like ordinary wax paper. A heavy bar 12 of black ink is printed on the reverse side of the fracturably coated strip.

The pad may consist of several other recording sheets, and while the printing or indicia on the under sheets of the pad is about the same as the indicia on the stop sheet 10, the various sheets are capable of being individually distinguished, as by coloring or numbering, so that after the purchaser, and the main office, for example, are supplied with a copy, other copies may be retained in a warehouse, storage premises or other places.

As shown in FIG. 1, the pad also inciudes record sheets 14, 15, 16 on and above .each of which is a carbon sheet or slip, these latter being identified as 17, 18, 20.

A data entry 21 is .shown on the sheet as being struck into the pad by the recording machine. This entry appears on all sheets of the pad, and the removed sheet of FIG. 2 is shown subsequent to the entry.

The sheet 10 may have a weakened line 22 therein, as between an attaching margin 23 and the transparency 11. Each of the other sheets may also have a tear line therein, and the attaching margins 23 of the different sheets are such as to form a binding in the pad.

It will be apparent that the pad may consist of just the sheet 10 and a duplicate sheet; or the sheet 10 by itself, or with one or more sheets, may be removed and inserted in the meter for imprinting.

Thus, by the above described invention a meter ticket is provided which overcomes the drawbacks of prior meter tickets for the reasons set forth hereinaoove and variations of the disclosure within the spirit of my invention are possible. Accordingly, I do not seek to be limited to the exact illustrations given except as set forth in the appended claims.

I claim:

1. In a group of statement forms adapted for use with a machine having non-perforating type for forming characters Without a ribbon, said group including at least one under sheet having a carbon slip thereover, a top sheet having a portion treated to provide a fracturable area to legibly show characters responsive to strokes by said type.

2. The combination, in a group of statement forms adapted to show characters thereon responsive to impacts made by non-perforating type without a ribbon, of sheet members each having a carbon slip thereon, and a substantially opaque top sheet member having therein a substantially transparent portion comprising a fracturable area.

3. A group of business forms of the class described adapted for use with a recording machine having ribbonless non-perforating type for forming characters directly on record sheets, comprising in combination plural under sheet members each having a carbon slip thereover and a top member having a portion so formed that when the impact of a type element is delivered thereto said portion may be mutilated by the projecting character of the type face in such manner that the character may legibly show on both sides of said portion.

4. A form for use with a recording machine having ribbonless type comprising a sheet having one face thereof treated to provide a fra-cturable area toshow legible characters responsive to non-perforating type impression, said sheet being substantially transparent, the reverse side of said sheet being pigment coated to effect contrast with fractured portions thereof.

5. A form for use with a recording machine having ribbonless type, comprising a sheet having a portion of one side treated to provide a fracturable area to show legible characters responsive to strokes by said type, said portion formed as a transparency Whereon to show characters as made by non-perforating type thereon, including an area of color applied as a coating to the reverse side of said treated portion to effect contrast with fractured portions thereof.

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